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    What is a stereotype about your country that often isn't true?

    +6  Views: 1096 Answers: 18 Posted: 12 years ago

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    That Canadians live in igloos and drive around in snowmobiles. That's ridiculous. Up here we call them Ski Doos !

    ROMOS

    Ye your right,effin hate that.
    doolittle

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    mom

    I was going to say the same thing. Here we get snow about 3-4 times through te winter and it ususally melts away in a week.
    FISH-O

    I am redecorating my igloo as we speak!
    mycatsmom

    They think Canadians live in Igloos ? ! Where'd they get that ? I live near Canada, and I know that the culture and climate in many parts of Canada is like the States. I've heard them called Ski-doo here in the states too. In northern Mich, they drive snowmobiles around---from one bar to the other. What a waste of gas.But, there's a topless bar on their route---That's why

    That we are all rich........

    sunnyB

    Yes you are really, your just joking.
    ROMOS

    damn, you,re not rich jh? damn damn damn damn.lol....KOTF.
    jhharlan

    I often damn myself........

    Scottish people wear kilts, drink too much, eat haggis all the time, WE DON,T. Not all the time anyway.

    digger

    ...and being cheap !
    sunnyB

    And don't forget the bagpipes.
    ROMOS

    Ye,not a lot of us play them but you can hear them a lot if you,re a tourist
    sunnyB

    Yes I remember my visit to Scotland Bag Pipes and Sheep, (only joking) really enjoyed it and the views are probably the best in the UK.
    mycatsmom

    I've heard the Irish are all drunks, but not the Scottish. You don't wear kilts all the time ? What a shame.What's under those kilts ? You don't carry your bagpipe around all the time?! (wink )

    "It's as American as Mom and apple pie."   This doesn't hold much polluted water in today's United States.  Living in California, the stereotype is blond hair, bikini, surfboard in the sun for everyone.  That is a total crock.... brunettes and redheads wear bikinis, too.

    matheneyg

    Gotca good answer

    People think that in Australia we have Kangaroos hopping around in the city streets.

    sunnyB

    Yes you do ,I've seen them on the tele.
    pythonlover

    Moderator
    Maybe in the outback,but never in suburbia/cities.
    valR

    My stereotype was that the whole Australia is outback.
    mycatsmom

    You don't ?
    Darci13

    Might have a site better conversation with the roo's hopping around then some people these days you think?

    that were all fat and lazy...


     

    mycatsmom

    Daren, what country or state is that ?

    Tell me what a stero type Englishman is, and I'll tell you if it's true.

    ROMOS

    Public school educated a******s. ( David Cameron? )
    sunnyB

    Thank God we're not all like that then.

    Ummm that our government knows what it'd doing

    Bob/PKB

    You could live just about anywhere! Where, actually, DO you live???
    doolittle

    across the nation from you.
    doolittle

    Actually it's a true stereotype! (at the moment). and Im bashing the house and senate not the president.
    valR

    Majorities of voters elected them all.

    The water is polluted.

    Darci13

    Yeah you know what them fishes do in that water LOL

    All its inhabitants are cowboys.

    BEFORE READING ALL THE OTHER ANSWERS, I THINK THAT OTHERS MAY LOOK AT BORN AUSSIES, AS DOORMATS.

    pythonlover

    Moderator
    Why is that ?
    valR

    WHOSE DOORMATS?
    FISH-O

    What?
    Darci13

    Why I have never thought such a thing????

    That Canadians are polite... We have three rude Canadians over here.  If you run into them the rule does not apply.

    matheneyg

    Well is their from Canada and they are rude then they must be from that French speaking provence Quebec They don't know how to be polite or friendly
    Tommyh

    We have had Canadians living next door for the past 15 years or so.They are very polite.Even the kids.
    Darci13

    Fish Fry am I invited to the redecorating of the igloo would love to see it

    Being from the deep south and growing up a country girl I hate it when people equate that as thinking you are automatically stupid, ignorant and not worth anything.  It is an untruth.

    mycatsmom

    Jh, I wrote essentially the same thing.That's why so many foreigners have come here.....to make the big money adn have the big house and car....and to send their kids to college. I think that dream is over now, tho' . Sad
    FISH-O

    Darci... this igloo of mine is going to take years to redecorate!!!! It's exhausting already. That will give you loads of time to save your pennies. :)
    Darci13

    I will be saving those pennies Fish Fry am currently trying to find you an igloo warmer LOL

    IT DOES HAPPEN IN SUBURBIA BIG TIME! YOU JUST NEED TO READ PEOPLES EYES, PYTHON.

    pythonlover

    Moderator
    Kangaroos are not jumping around on the streets .
    valR

    Chain, Is Australia your country?
    Tommyh

    I live in an inner suburb & I have seen a wallaby & a Koala in my street.(at different times).They were both refugeees from a nearby nature reserve tho & I have lived here for 20 years & they are the only wildlife sightings.
    Oh,I once had a carpet python in my back yard.

    For the U.S. it's that the streets are paved with gold

    IT IS BEING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO SURVIVE, LET ALONE EMPLOYMENT IN ONES


    OWN COUNTRY, WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY BEING THE SCAPEGOAT FOR SOME F-T B------S


    GREED.

    pythonlover

    Moderator
    Umm why did you vote down my answer ?
    jhharlan

    I'm wondering the same thing, why the vote downs?
    pythonlover

    Moderator
    Has he done it to you too ?
    jhharlan

    He didn't like that I wrote people think Americans are rich.......
    mycatsmom

    How can you tell if someone is voting down your answer? I wouldn't know if they were voting me down or up , or not at all.

    WELL IF IVOTE YOU GUYS DOWN, DON'T YOU GET MY KARMA?


    THAT IS A GOOD THING, ISN'T IT? OR DO I HAVE IT WRONG?

    pythonlover

    Moderator
    You have it wrong....we do not get your karma,don't vote people down for no valid reason,you might be on your way for suspension.
    Bob/PKB

    CHAIN: When you vote or thumb down an answer, the person loses 15 points. A td question loses 35 points. No one gets YOUR karma...you earn or lose that through others' votes of your Q & A. Also, when you are making comments to someone's answer, such as you have done sseveral times here, you "comment this answer", not answer again. My comment to you is not an answer that can receive TU or TD; it's just a remark made specifically to you.
    jhharlan

    Thank you, @Bob/PKB...My feelings are still hurt that @CHAIN voted me and @pythonlover down. @CHAIN doesn't get it.......
    mycatsmom

    Where is Colleen when you need her? Wake up, Colleen. Houston, we have a problem
    valR

    Julie,
    Forgive and forget CHAIN. You'll sleep better tonight...

    These are some words that when i hear i feel bad ``People in Kosovo are wild, without culture, impolite, unfriendly etc. In every country exist different people but that doesn`t mean that all people are bad, everyone have his opinion, character, culture. polite etc.



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